Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.
But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.